Motorcycle Wheels:
NEW!
Tachyon motorcycle wheel balancer review |
Akront wheels are back -
Billet Boys is the U.S.A. distributor |
Alpina tubeless spoked wheels for Supermoto and
other bikes;
here are some photos from the 2008 Dealer Expo |
Buchanan's Spoke and
Rim has custom spokes and wheel rims by Akront, D.I.D.,
Excel and Sun; also British bike rims and others | wBWReview: Carrozzeria
forged racing wheels | Motowheels
carries Marchesini, Marvic carbon fiber
wheels by Blackstone; they also sell PVM wheels from Germany; check out
their extensive line of carbon fiber and other go-fast parts and
accessories for Ducatis and other Italian and Japanese bikes
| Performance
Machine makes disc brakes and wheels | Dymag
wheels are now distributed through Moto Millienia and available for purchase
through
Oncycles | RC
Components designs and builds motorcycle
wheels | Marchesini, Brembo, Tramont and Borrani products are available at TAW;
they also have super lightweight gas caps
| Wheel Works (Garden Grove, CA) specializes in lacing and truing,
stainless steel spokes powder coating and polishing and chroming; no website,
call 714-530-6681 | Perfect Plating (Camden, SC) has many chromed
motorcycle wheels in stock or will chrome yours "fast"; also do
chrome plating and gold plating on wheels and swingarms; no website, call
803-424-0507 | PVM aluminum
and magnesium high-tech European wheels are available at European
Motorcycle Accessories |
Weld
makes forged wheels; check out their designs, they look great!

Carbon Fiber Motorcycle Wheels:
BlackStone Tech
carbon fiber wheels have hollow spokes and are TUV
certified and DOT and JWL compliant |
DyMag
has been making performance wheels for over 30 years;
they manufacture carbon fiber wheels and will make
custom high-performance motorcycle wheels; see the wBW
review of Dymag carbon fiber wheels

Motorcycle Chains and Sprockets: See the wBW
maintenance article on
replacing a motorcycle chain and sprocket | AFAM
USA has front and rear sprockets, chains, 520 chain conversion kits
| We used a DID
X-ring chain on the Thunderbird Sport replacement and it
works well and is nice-looking | Pro-tek
has all sorts of sprockets; they also have
anodized sprockets in Black, Gold, Silver, Red, Blue, and Violet; Pro-tek
also has rearsets; Pro-Lite footpegs; clip on handlebars; bar-ends;
bar-end sliders; reservoir caps; frame protectors;front sprockets; and
swing arm spools | Regina
Chain - Good chains, but Flash and graphics-intensive site makes for
slow downloads | Sidewinder
Sprockets has titanium laser cut
sprockets; they also sell chains and have some good technical info on
chains and sprockets on their website | The
Sprocket Center has anodized sprockets,
anodized nuts and bolts, chains, Galfer brake products, chain tools and
more | Large selection of
motorcycle chains and sprockets, including sprocket and
chain kits, at Kevins Cycle Racing; they also have motorcycle
chain cleaner and chain lube

Motorcycle Wheel Straightening:M.C.
Wheels does wheel straightening; owner
Mark Moran has "designed and built all my wheel machines, and get
wheels within half a millimeter which is well within factory tolerances"
| Kosman does wheel widening
and also conversion kits for wider wheels
| David Moore Wheel Service (CA) has 25 years' experience in
straightening alloy wheels; no website, call 760-240-3543 | Frame
Straight Systems straightens motorcycle wheels and other component parts;
they guarantee to straighten your wheels to within 0.008" or there's no
charge and they ship it back to you for free; they claim most wheels can be
straightened from 0.001" - 0.004" |
Wire Wheels Motorcycle Service builds wheels, does wheel truing and can
do sand or bead blasting of motorcycle wheels; they will also build BMW
tubeless wire wheels |
Woody's Wheel
Works specializes in repairing and restoring magnesium, aluminum and
spoked wheels